conditioning
[ kuhn-dish-uh-ning ]
/ kənˈdɪʃ ə nɪŋ /
noun Psychology.
Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
Also called classical conditioning, Pavlovian conditioning, respondent conditioning. a process in which a stimulus that was previously neutral, as the sound of a bell, comes to evoke a particular response, as salivation, by being repeatedly paired with another stimulus that normally evokes the response, as the taste of food.
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OTHER WORDS FROM conditioning
self-con·di·tion·ing, adjectiveWords nearby conditioning
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British Dictionary definitions for conditioning
conditioning
/ (kənˈdɪʃənɪŋ) /
noun
psychol the learning process by which the behaviour of an organism becomes dependent on an event occurring in its environmentSee also classical conditioning, instrumental learning
adjective
(of a shampoo, cosmetic, etc) intended to improve the condition of somethinga conditioning rinse
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Medical definitions for conditioning
conditioning
[ kən-dĭsh′ə-nĭng ]
n.
A process of behavior modification by which a subject comes to associate a desired behavior with a previously unrelated stimulus.
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Scientific definitions for conditioning
conditioning
[ kən-dĭsh′ə-nĭng ]
See classical conditioning.
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